Hi all. I wrote the following rule, which I think was kinda clever: rule “Z-Wave tempsensor updated” when Item ZWaveMultiSensor_SensorTemperature received update then if(timer_z!=null) { timer_z.cancel } if(TellstickTemperature1_ActualTemperature.state==NULL || ZWaveMultiSe…

Thanks for your response! [image] rossko57: When you reload a rules file, it does not kill any timers already spawned - so you can see lingering effects for a while.[/quote] Any idea how much “a while” is? I’m now on the third day and counting. [image] rossko57: Which does not i think exp…

Don’t know if it will make a difference, but try canceling the timer with: > if(timer_z!=null) { > timer_z.cancel > timer_z = null > }

[quote=“DanielMalmgren, post:3, topic:22815”] When you reload a rules file, it does not kill any timers already spawned - so you can see lingering effects for a while. Any idea how much “a while” is? I’m now on the third day and counting.[/quote] Purely the maximum period of any timers you may ha…

[image] rossko57: Purely the maximum period of any timers you may have made. I just pointed this out, because I’ve seen more than one thread where is gnashing of teeth when an error is generated shortly after rules reload, when it shouldn’t really be of much concern as is distracting from the …

[image] DanielMalmgren: I still don’t understand where I’d put the expire rules in items that I’ve configured only through the GUI (paper UI/Habmin). Dunno, not an OH2 user. I think you ought to have the timer(s) null itself on completion. They do not do that automatically, and your code wi…

[image] rossko57: I think you ought to have the timer(s) null itself on completion. They do not do that automatically, and your code will get in the situation of trying to reschedule an expired timer, which I think will fail. Ok, I tried adding “timer_z=null” and “timer_t=null”, doesn’t make…

[image] DanielMalmgren: import org.openhab.model.script.actions.Timer import org.joda.time.* You shouldn’t be doing the joda import in OH2, and this is known to cause problems. I’m not sure about the Timer. [image] DanielMalmgren: var Timer timer_t Just to avoid suprises, I would ex…

[image] rossko57: You shouldn’t be doing the joda import in OH2, and this is known to cause problems. I’m not sure about the Timer. Oh. All examples have the imports, so I thought they were needed. I removed both of them now and they doesn’t seem to make any difference (everything works and …

[image] DanielMalmgren: Oh. All examples have the imports, so I thought they were needed. At the moment you need to take great care about applying the much more numerous examples for OH1 to OH2 You’d better reiterate exactly what errors you get, and when. Errors after a rules file reload ar…

[image] rossko57: But your code should not be trying to create a new timer unless the old handle is null, so that’s a clue. Yes, but if I have a handler that actually is referencing a timer and then I first assign the handler null (ie the timer still exists, only now I have no pointer to it) …

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rossko57 (Rossko57) February 14, 2017, 8:02pm 13

that’ll be a reentrant lock